Julie Halston

Julie Halston is an American actress and comedian. She first achieved recognition as an actress through her co-starring performances in the comedy plays of writer-performer, Charles Busch in the 1980s in New York City. She wrote a series of one woman comedy shows that eventually led to a successful Off-Broadway production entitled, Julie Halston's Lifetime of Comedy (1992). The show earned her an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Play for that season and landed Halston a CBS network development deal. The pilot was called Those Two and co-starred Harvey Fierstein. She went to Hofstra University, where she received a B.A. in Theatre Arts. She was married to broadcaster Ralph Howard until his death in 2018 of pulmonary fibrosis. In 2021, she received the Isabelle Stevenson TONY Award for her enormous fund raising efforts for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.